Saturday featured cloudy skies early with clearing conditions by evening, a bit milder in the late AM/early aft after another frosty early AM. We also had some conversational light wet snow in the mid-afternoon that fell through ground temps in the low 40s and upper 30s, so there was no accumulation. Temperatures are warming quickly into the low 40s not so early on this Sunday morning, with winds lessening overnight. The Saturday maximum temperature from the VP2 (43.3°) was recorded at 1353 while the minimum temperature (28.0°) was recorded at 0709. Dew point temperatures rose a bit from yesterday, ranging from a low of 15° at 0017 up to a high of 34° at 1822. Relative humidity values rose today (84% – 41%). Barometric values rose a tad today, ranging from an early high of 30.08″ at 0001 down to a low of 29.84″ at 1836.

Remember now you can get the VP2 data on Weatherlink. You can access the data through http://www.weatherlink.com/user/walrusman444

I am posting daily to weather underground. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called “Gardens of Traville.” Data is online, normally just about in real-time. I contribute daily to cocorahs as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115. Please remember that Weather Underground does not report snow data, and reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge.

Saturday was a busy day, spending time on the road and at two locations several miles away from my apartment. My ornothology/weather friend John W picked me up at my apartment just after 1400 to drive on up together to the Lisbon MD Universal Methodist Church (UMC), about 25 miles north of here. On our beginning half of the trip we were driving through light snow which wet the roadway and ground, but with ground temps well above the freezing mark no accumulations were noted during the entire trip/day. We ate country style with unlimited refills of ham and fried oysters and all the trimmings. We met my friend Marty B up there and all dined together.We left there about 1715 or thereabouts. Marty went home but John drove me down south of Damascus to the country estate of Dorian and Glenn just off route 124 on Harvest Knolls Way. I met Dorian a few years ago when she joined cocorahs. They were celebrating her and Glenn’s birthdays along with St Patricks Day. Way more activity than I usually have on a typical Saturday but I loved it! I continue to have to deal with problems with sending out email through gmail and verizon through Thunderbird, as the outgoing SMTP mail server keeps timing out. Rebooting (warm or cold) seems to be the only real working solution.

It was clear and cold at sunrise early Saturday morning but clouded over by late morning, as yet another disturbance moved in from the W and NW, with light snow falling for a time in the early/mid afternoon. Temperatures were in the upper 20s in the early AM, but rose fairly quickly with the clouds coming in. During the snow temps were in the low 40s initially then only down to the upper 30s later. Eventually by evening clearing commenced but temps were slow to drop, only into the mid 30s by midnight. Overnight Saturday into Sunday was clear and cold, with temps falling to the lower 30s by sunrise. Sunday should warm up, with highs in the mid 50s and lows in the low 30s under sunny skies. Monday should be mostly cloudy with high temps in the lower 50s for highs and in the low-mid 30s for lows. On Tuesday and Wednesday incredulously temps should only max out in the upper 30s for highs, lows in the mid-upper 20s, and a 100 POP for rain/snow on Tuesday and a 80 POP for AM snow on Wednesday. Stay tuned for changes as I am sure this forecast will continue to evolve. Normal high temps now are in the mid 50s and normal lows are in the low-mid 30s. We have not had an above normal day since the end of February.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 1128 radar is showing a generally clear screen through the Eastern US. The closest areas of precip are rain showers and storms over parts of MS, LA and AR at this time.

As of 1128, the data from the VP2 (coming from the ground radiation shield about 4 feet off the ground just under and out from the balcony) and the Lakewood WXBug station are as follows:

Sunny, warming up and dry.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP   BP     Wind High/Low temp Saturday
VP2             Ground         45.0 38 21 30.05R   NA     43.3/28.0

The total precipitation in the cocorahs gauge was a trace through midnight Saturday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony had 0.00″ through midnight Friday. (Trace amounts not normally recorded in the tipping bucket)

Saturday’s precipitation was T
March precipitation is 0.44″.
Saturday’s snowfall T
March snowfall 0.3″
Snow on ground 0 (reported to the nearest half-inch)
The seasonal snowfall total is 7.8″.
Year-to-date precipitation total is 7.07″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 44 31 16 30.00″S NNE 6 G NNW 15
                            140° from station                   44/25

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.00″ of precipitation on Saturday. It also does not record trace amounts of snow or rain. It is now reporting a total of 1.01″ of precipitation so far in March and a 2018 year-to-date (YTD) amount of 8.52″.

At 2400 obs Wednesday night the temperature from the VP2 was 36.1 RH 82% BP 29.90″R DP 31.1 .

Clear, cold, dry, no snow on the ground

Good late morning from the sunny and milder home of the Walrus late on this Sunday AM